Pakistan’s government has tried to carve out an odd middle ground on the drone strikes, loudly championing their own involvement on the rare occasion when a drone actually kills a militant while angrily condemning media reports of their involvement in the drone program as a “conspiracy theory.”

The drone strikes have increasingly taken a back seat in Pakistani news however since NATO launched several cross border strikes using attack helicopters. When one of those killed three Pakistani soldiers, the government shut the border to NATO supply traffic. After days of defending the attack US officials apologized for the killing, and Pakistan reopened the border today.